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...backed him in Kefauver's spectacularly successful Senate race against the Memphis machine of Boss Ed Crump. The plan was not originally Orgill's either. It had had its origin in the mind of an ex-newspaperman, a gentle, dogged and dedicated crusader named Clarence Kirsh-man Streit (rhymes with fight...
Legion of the Single-Minded. In spite of the most persistent promotion of Clarence Streit's idea, probably a majority of U.S. citizens had never heard of it, and many who had read of it in the inside pages had long since forgotten its details. And although he had concentrated his campaign for backing on men of influence, including legislators and editors, few legislators and only a few newspapers backed it. Only a handful of well-known names appeared among the sponsors of Atlantic Union, and Clarence Streit's was a voice in the wilderness of the cities...
Sincerity & Good Will. Clayton was speaking for the Atlantic Union Committee, headed by former Supreme Court Justice Owen Roberts. Atlantic Union was a lineal descendant of Union Now, founded and expounded by Clarence Streit, longtime crusader for a union of free peoples. Its blueprint envisioned a political, military and economic federation of the original seven North Atlantic Treaty nations (U.S., Canada, Britain, France, The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg...
...resolution marks the high-water mark (to date) of the movement founded 15 years ago by that timeless gadfly of world government, Clarence Streit. He and his associates think that treaties and arms programs and economic-assistance plans are all doomed to fail unless free nations limit their sovereignty and enter a union similar to that created by the U.S. Constitution...
Under those conditions "we must hold the strongest hand possible to win the game," Streit stated. If a "federal union of the free" is established, he stated, "we will hold all four aces and the joker...